Robert Elves

Thanks for the tip. I was intrigued when I read the reviews when it came out. I still have some things that belonged to my mother and can remember what she cooked in/with them

Yes, looked it and thought, I don't watch any reality series especially US ones, spotted the spanagram and knocked the rest off in record time

Story Graph graphic showing the first book I read in 2025 was The prophet and the idiot and the last was Parisians by Graham Robb. The longest book was London a biography and the shortest was Astérix and Cleopatra

This is my reading year according to StoryGraph.

Lyngham is sung a lot in Cornwall

Or indeed Cranbrook

You jet-setter ;-)

Also slightly annoyed not to get the purple group first as I rejected one word as it wasn't in the plural

We didn't know it was a thing but having googled we all tried doing the thing at breakfast time with mixed success

Are you sure it wasn't the previous one ;-)

Like you it took me a while to get into it but I did love it. I have The Wood in Midwinter on order on Libby since May - I am now 9th in the queue

Very good

You can never have too much icing. You can make too much icing for the cake but then you just sit down with what is left in the bowl

It is a great bookshop. We stay in Wirksworth a bit which is only 10 minutes drive away

I saw one last week at work (outside I hasten to add) and likewise I hadn't heard of them before

I was hoping for black and white things and red and white things but I will take the actual answer

totally, I got none at all. Vest is not a verb and don't get me started on the purple group

Hope they gave you a badge so you know what a brave girl you have been

We've done two more loads since and not a peep. Definitely weird

Phew. We came back from holiday and on the final spin of the first load ours made loud clunk and the drum stopped rotating freely. Cue morning and frantic calls to neighbours only to find out the fairies had visited in the night and cured it

And I got it twice, once when I first got the job and second when I went for internal promotion a few years later

Probably, what's the worst thing that has happened to you at work and how did you cope

Very smooth. All the connections across London worked so I was home half an hour early

Hope your journey home was smoother. I am currently on the Victoria Line so almost home

I see what you did there 😆@jrfinch.bsky.social

A railway station sign that reads Stirling/Sruighlea

And that’s a wrap. Thank you to Neil and the committee for organising another wonderful conference. Thank you to those who presented members papers. Thank you for some stimulating keynotes #bla25

That’s it. Congratulations to @blalib.org on their 50th anniversary.

What a way to celebrate in beautiful Sterling with excellente member paper presentations and keynote speakers.

Big thank you to everyone and safe travels home. #bla25

Explore Stirling brochure cover

Discovered many of the answers to the Stirling round of the quiz were in here. Oh well. Too late now #bla25

Shout out to the sponsors and their continued support of @blalib.org . So good to catch up with all. #BLA25

Enjoyed the whisky tasting at Stirling Distillery and very informative talk #bla25

I was remembering the cèilidh we had last time in Stirling